Minoritare Literatur

Rumäniendeutsche Literatur (1970-1990)

Europaentwürfe – Positionierungen der rumänischen Literatur nach 1989

Die postkommunistische Literatur Rumäniens wirft entscheidende Fragen der europäischen Zugehörigkeit, der gesellschaftlichen Transformation sowie der Selbst- und Fremdverortung in transnationaler Perspektive auf. Miruna Bacali präsentiert einen innovativen Umgang mit den literarischen Quellentexten, die im Sinne der Geschichtswissenschaft analysiert werden. Sie werden so zu Material für gesellschaftspolitisch relevante Diskurse, die weit über das Literarische hinausgehen. Auch bindet die Fallstudie soziologische, kultur- und literaturwissenschaftliche Theorieansätze mit ein, wodurch Transfer und Vergleichbarkeit über Disziplingrenzen hinaus gewährleistet werden.

Theory in the "Post" Era

Shortlisted for the AATSEEL 2022 Award for Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume (AATSEEL is The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages) Theory in the "Post" Era brings together the work and perspectives of a group of Romanian theorists who discuss the morphings of contemporary theory in what the editors call the “post” era. Since the Cold War's end and especially in the third millennium, theorists have been exploring the aftermath - and sometimes just the “after” - of whole paradigms, the crisis or “passing” of anthropocentrism, the twilight of an entire ontological and cultural “condition,” as well as the corresponding rise of an antagonist model, of an “anti,” “meta,” or “neo” alternative, with examples ranging from “posthumanism” and “post-postmodernism” to “post-aesthetics,” “postanalog” interpretation or “digicriticism,” “post-presentism,” “post-memory,” “post-“ or “neo-critique,” and so forth. It is no coincidence, the contributors to this volume argue, that this “post” moment is also a time when theory is practiced as a world genre. If theory has always been a “worlded” enterprise, a quintessentially communal, cross-cultural and international project, this is truer at present than ever. Perhaps more than other humanist constituencies, today's theorists work and belong in a theory commons that is transnational if still uneven economically, politically, and otherwise. Theory in the "Post" Era reports the results of Romanian theory experiments that join efforts made in other places to foster a theory for the “post” age.